A Total Lunar Eclipse Poem

total darkness on a wedding night except the flickering candle that plays out out his anxiety to take a peek of the moon (bride) the sun (father) has afforded him he would tilt the veil to let the light of a hundred moons shine through her face he would look at her the way an eclipse has cleared the path for the moon to shine the full moon that turns into a crescent to be shrouded in his bossom so that it glows a warm and sweet orange and she will peek into his face the way the eclipse reveals the secrets of the full moon first a crescent and then its full splendour, a husband at last to light the way to her future days ###in the old days in China a man would only know how his wife looked like on the wedding night and vice versa. the eclipse looks very much the way a chinese man tilt the veil over the head of wife as he takes a peek of her face.